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| [4] Lawmakers grill officials for inaction on IRS, Lerner denies wrongdoing |
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| [4] Fatigued electorate to make historic choice in Los Angeles |
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| [3] Chicago Board of Ed to Vote on 53 School Closings |
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| [3] Names of tornado victims released by medical examiner's office |
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| [2] Maine Man Appears in Court in Missing Teen's Death |
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| [2] Complaint Accuses Exxon Mobil of Anti-Gay Bias |
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| [1] Swimmer Cullen Jones on the road for water safety |
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| Added on: 22-05-2013 09:37:23 |
| NEW YORK (AP) -- In Beijing and London, U.S. Olympian Cullen Jones was fierce in the water, bringing home gold and silver and setting a world record along the way.... |
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| [1] Names of Those Killed in Oklahoma Tornado |
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| [1] Zach Braff raises money -- and ire -- with Kickstarter campaign for new film |
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| Added on: 22-05-2013 09:21:10 |
| The "Scrubs" theme song, "I'm no Superman," has a line that goes, "You gotta work to feed the soul but I can't do this all on my own." The show's former star, Zach Braff, apparently has taken that to heart and in so doing has sparked one of the biggest Hollywood controversies of the year.Four years after the show that made him a star went off the air, the actor-writer-director is part of the cultu... |
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| [1] Kerry: US, allies, ready to step up aid rebels |
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| Added on: 22-05-2013 09:20:25 |
| AMMAN, Jordan (AP) -- The United States and its Arab and European allies will step up their support for Syria's opposition to help them "fight for the freedom of their country" if President Bashar Assad's regime doesn't engage in peace talks in good faith, U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry vowed Wednesday.... |
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| [1] Sathwik Karnik Wins National Geographic Bee |
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| Added on: 22-05-2013 09:04:20 |
| 12-year-old Sathwik Karnik of Massachusetts wins National Geographic Bee |
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| [1] Boston Church Official Faces Racketeering Charges |
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| Added on: 22-05-2013 09:04:19 |
| Boston church official who once claimed mob connection facing racketeering, extortion charges |
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| [1] Skateboarders Might Find New Love at Philly Park |
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| Added on: 22-05-2013 09:04:19 |
| Skateboarders brokenhearted by ban from Philly's Love Park may have new object of affection |
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| [1] Syrian opposition urges rebels to join key battle |
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| Added on: 22-05-2013 08:46:28 |
| BEIRUT (AP) — Syria's main opposition alliance on Wednesday urged fighters from around the country to reinforce a rebel-held town under attack by President Bashar Assad's troops and their allies from the Lebanese militant Hezbollah group. |
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| [1] Tornado victim separated from spouse: 'The house totally disappeared' |
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| Added on: 22-05-2013 08:46:19 |
| Jerrie Bhonde remembers heading to the bathroom to ride out the tornado with her husband, Hemant. The couple clung to each other inside the shower and waited. Suddenly, the bathroom, and the rest of their house, vanished.“The house totally disappeared,” Jerrie Bhonde recalled a day later for TODAY’s Matt Lauer from her hospital bed. |
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| [18] Okla. Mayor Wants to Require Tornado Shelters |
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| [9] Watch: FBI Fatally Shoots Florida Man in Boston Bombing Probe |
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| [2] Artist Ai Weiwei uses music to mock state power in China |
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| [2] US Test-Launches Intercontinental Missile |
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| [2] GOP questions IRS scrutiny of anti-abortion groups |
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| [1] Dubai authorities seize shipment of 259 elephant tusks |
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| Added on: 22-05-2013 08:30:38 |
| DUBAI (Reuters) - Customs officials in United Arab Emirates have seized hundreds of elephant tusks shipped from Africa marked as furniture, the Ministry of Environment and Water said. |
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| [1] Octogenarians race to be oldest Everest climber |
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| Added on: 22-05-2013 08:30:37 |
| KATMANDU, Nepal (AP) — An 80-year-old Japanese extreme skier who climbed Mount Everest five years ago, but just missed becoming the oldest man to reach the summit, was back on the mountain Wednesday to make another attempt at the title. |
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| [1] Oklahoma Insurance Department Says Preliminary Tornado Damage Estimate Could Top $2 Billion |
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| [1] Tornando survivors try to recover |
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| Added on: 22-05-2013 07:37:35 |
| The 200 mph twister cut a path of destruction 17 miles long and 1.3 miles wide. |
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| [1] US Home Sales Tick up to Highest in 3 ½ Years |
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| Added on: 22-05-2013 07:37:33 |
| US home sales rise slightly to 4.97 million in April, highest in 3 ½ years; inventories rise |
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| [1] Judge: Hollister Clothing Unfriendly to Disabled |
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| Added on: 22-05-2013 07:21:47 |
| Judge considers injunction after ruling Abercrombie & Fitch, Hollister unfriendly to disabled |
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| [1] Median CEO Pay Rises to $9.7 Million in 2012 |
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| Added on: 22-05-2013 07:21:44 |
| CEO compensation from stock keeps growing as companies respond to shareholder activists |
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| [1] Watch: Iowa Missing Teen Search Continues |
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| [1] Feds Open Inspection Into Shuttered NC Nuke Plant |
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| Added on: 22-05-2013 07:06:29 |
| NRC launches special inspection of NC nuclear plant shuttered by year-old data discovery |
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| [1] Flooding Forces Evacuation of 1,300 in ND Town |
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| [1] LA Voters Back Measure to Cap Number of Pot Shops |
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| [1] Jodi Arias: Death penalty would be 'revenge,' not justice |
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| Added on: 22-05-2013 06:16:40 |
| As an Arizona jury resumes deliberating on Wednesday about whether she deserves the death penalty for the murder of her ex-boyfriend, Jodi Arias is now begging for her life after initially saying she preferred to die. |
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| [1] NYC Judge: Renting Apartments Using Airbnb Illegal |
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| Added on: 22-05-2013 05:42:47 |
| NYC judge: Man broke law when he rented his apartment to traveler through Airbnb website |
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| [1] Gay rights advocate seeks to overturn gay Boy Scouts ban |
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| Added on: 22-05-2013 05:27:09 |
| Top Line As the Boy Scouts of America prepares to vote tomorrow on a proposal that would change its long-standing policy of excluding gay boys from Scout units, the executive director of Scouts for Equality, a gay rights advocacy group, is hopeful that the proposal will pass--but says this is just the first step. |
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| [1] Costa Concordia captain ordered to face trial |
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| [1] Teen Pleads Not Guilty in Deaths of Ohio Brothers |
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| Added on: 22-05-2013 05:10:08 |
| 17-year-old pleads not guilty in slayings of 2 brothers in Ohio; had pointed police to bodies |
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| [1] Sisters Ejected From Pa. Mall Over Cancer Hats |
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| [1] Cleveland Kidnapping Victims 'Happy and Safe' |
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| [1] FEMA Chief: Feds won't go 'when the cameras leave' |
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| Added on: 22-05-2013 05:09:17 |
| WASHINGTON (AP) -- The head of the Federal Emergency Management Agency says U.S. officials are "going neighborhood to neighborhood" to make sure Oklahoma gets the help it needs.... |
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| [1] Afghan students protest women's rights decree |
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| Added on: 22-05-2013 04:54:45 |
| KABUL, Afghanistan (AP) — Hard-line Islamist students protested Wednesday in the Afghan capital demanding the repeal of a presidential decree for women's rights that they say is un-Islamic. |
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| [1] Are lawmakers to blame for the IRS scandal? |
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| [2] Riots in Stockholm spread to more suburbs |
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| [1] Arias speaks out about case in jailhouse interview |
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| Added on: 22-05-2013 04:24:10 |
| The convicted murder says her lawyers let her down. |
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| [1] College costs could go up, thanks to Washington |
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| Added on: 22-05-2013 04:09:24 |
| For a talented, creative few, there’s David Letterman. For most, there’s a labyrinth of paperwork, hard decisions and painful sacrifices that could have dramatic repercussions on their financial health decades from now. |
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| [1] US isn't respecting meat labeling rules, Mexico says |
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| Added on: 22-05-2013 03:54:02 |
| MEXICO CITY -- The United States is not respecting a World Trade Organization (WTO) ruling on meat labeling, Mexico's Agriculture Minister Enrique Martinez said on Tuesday, saying it was hurting local industry.The WTO ruled in late June last year that a U.S. |
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| [1] Sweden stunned by third night of rioting |
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| Added on: 22-05-2013 03:54:01 |
| STOCKHOLM - Hundreds of youths set fire to cars and attacked police and rescue services in suburbs of Stockholm Tuesday night in Sweden's worst disorder in years.A police station in the Jakobsberg area in the northwest of the city was attacked, two schools were damaged and an arts and crafts center was set ablaze, despite a call for calm from Prime Minister Fredrik Reinfeldt.It was the third night... |
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| [1] Search for Okla. survivors winding down |
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| Officials are confident they've accounted for everyone caught in the twister. |
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| [7] 'I hope I get a second chance': Anthony Weiner launches bid to become NYC mayor |
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| [2] 600 police photos of Tucson rampage scene released |
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| [1] Portland, Ore., rejecting water fluoridation |
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| Added on: 22-05-2013 02:19:32 |
| PORTLAND, Ore. (AP) — The mayor of Portland, Ore., has conceded defeat in an effort to add fluoride to the city's drinking water. |
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| [1] Iran's Ahmadinejad denounces election decision |
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| Added on: 22-05-2013 02:19:30 |
| TEHRAN, Iran (AP) — Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad says a decision by election overseers to disqualify his top aide from an upcoming presidential race is an act of "oppression" and he will take the case to the country's Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei. |
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| [1] Officials say Benghazi suspects under surveillance |
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| Added on: 22-05-2013 02:19:28 |
| The five men are said to be under round-the-clock U.S. surveillance in Libya. |
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| [1] Immigration bill heads to full Senate |
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| Added on: 22-05-2013 02:19:26 |
| WASHINGTON (AP) — A far-reaching bill to remake the nation's immigration system is headed to the full Senate, where tough battles are brewing on gay marriage, border security and other contentious issues, with the outcome impossible to predict. |
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| [1] Okla. residents start picking up the pieces |
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| Added on: 22-05-2013 02:19:24 |
| Residents begin assessing what's left of their homes after Monday's twister. |
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| [1] Sparks will fly: House panel braces for heated IRS hearing |
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| Added on: 22-05-2013 02:19:07 |
| Capitol Hill readied Wednesday for perhaps the most explosive -- or at least dramatic -- of the three hearings into IRS abuses of conservative and Tea Party groups in the past week, with one of the key witnesses expected to invoke her constitutional right to remain silent.The Republican-controlled House Oversight and Government Reform committee was set to convene its own hearing on the revelations... |
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| [1] Under scrutiny, Va. gov's mansion a dichotomy |
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| Added on: 22-05-2013 01:58:54 |
| RICHMOND, Va. (AP) -- An embezzling case that began with a chef being accused of stealing food from Virginia's Executive Mansion and morphed into a political scandal involving two of the state's most powerful politicians has some people wondering: What goes on behind the wide double doors of the governor's house?... |
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| [1] More storms on the way, tornadoes possible across swath of US |
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| Added on: 22-05-2013 01:40:46 |
| An area stretching from the lower Great Lakes to the Tennessee Valley was expected to be hit by severe thunderstorms on Wednesday, forecasters warned.The National Weather Service said that the “primary threats” would be damaging winds and large hail, but added “isolated tornadoes will also be possible.”“Farther south, Tuesday night thunderstorms could continue into Wednesday morning with some dama... |
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| [1] Amid immigration reform, calls to change asylums |
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| Added on: 22-05-2013 01:20:09 |
| SEATTLE (AP) -- As Congress debates legalizing about 11 million immigrants living in the U.S. illegally, immigration advocates are pushing plans they say will open the asylum process for thousands of more people who flee persecution in their home countries.... |
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| [1] Restaurant learns online reviews can make or break |
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| Added on: 22-05-2013 00:34:36 |
| PHOENIX (AP) -- An Arizona restaurateur's online rants against unhappy customers has become an Internet sensation - and taught small businesses an important lesson about keeping customers happy.... |
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| [1] Parents face tough choice when tornadoes bear down |
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| Added on: 22-05-2013 00:34:34 |
| MOORE, Okla. (AP) -- With an ominous storm approaching, the Moore Public School District flashed a text alert to parents: "We are currently holding all students until the current storm danger is over. Students are being released to parents only at this time."... |
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| [2] Winner of 'Dancing With the Stars' is ... |
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| [1] Ex-Cincy IRS official doubts agency's explanation for Tea Party scandal |
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| Added on: 21-05-2013 21:19:37 |
| A former manager at the IRS Cincinnati office at the center of the controversy over the targeting of conservative political organizations seeking tax-exempt status tells NBC News she doesn’t think low-level employees acted on their own in flagging them for further scrutiny. |
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| [1] North Korea sends top military official as 'special envoy' to China |
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| Added on: 21-05-2013 21:19:35 |
| North Korea says that a "special envoy" for leader Kim Jong Un has left for China.The North's official Korean Central News Agency said in a short dispatch Wednesday that the envoy was Choe Ryong Hae.There were no other details. |
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| [1] Most expensive house ever hits market at $190M |
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| Added on: 21-05-2013 21:19:34 |
| There's Versace's former home, priced at $100 million, Steven Cohen's $115 million apartment and a Manhattan penthouse listed at $125 million. But none of them hold a candle to an estate that spans 50 acres of waterfront in Greenwich, Conn. |
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| [1] Pentagon wants $450M for Guantanamo prison |
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| Added on: 21-05-2013 15:31:09 |
| WASHINGTON (AP) -- The Pentagon wants more than $450 million for maintaining and upgrading the Guantanamo Bay prison that President Barack Obama wants to close.... |
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| [1] Ex-Ford execs charged in Argentine torture cases |
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| The men are charged for allegedly helping the military government target union workers. |
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| [1] Gay Fla. teen charged for underage girlfriend |
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| Added on: 21-05-2013 13:25:37 |
| MIAMI (AP) -- An 18-year-old Florida cheerleader is facing felony charges that she had sexual contact with her underage, 14-year-old girlfriend, leading gay rights advocates to say the teen is being unfairly targeted for a common high school romance because she's gay.... |
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| [1] Correction: Missing Mom-Utah story |
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| Added on: 21-05-2013 13:25:29 |
| WEST VALLEY CITY, Utah (AP) -- In a story May 20 about the Susan Powell investigation, The Associated Press reported erroneously the day that Josh Powell committed suicide. It happened on Feb. 15, 2012.... |
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| [1] Top figures barred from Iran's June ballot |
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| Added on: 21-05-2013 13:10:16 |
| Ayatollah Ali Khamenei had final say over list of presidential candidates. |
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| [2] Moniz sworn in as energy secretary |
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| Added on: 21-05-2013 12:20:44 |
| WASHINGTON (AP) -- Energy Secretary Ernest Moniz said Tuesday he will put on hold about 20 applications to export liquefied natural gas until he reviews studies by the Energy Department and others on what impact the exports would have on domestic natural gas supplies and prices.... |
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| New Energy Chief Is Cautious on Gas Exports (Wall Street Journal) |
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| [1] Is Pope Francis an exorcist? |
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| [1] FBI ID's Benghazi suspects _ but no arrests yet |
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| Added on: 21-05-2013 11:13:28 |
| WASHINGTON (AP) -- U.S. officials say they have identified five men they believe might be behind the attack on the diplomatic mission in Benghazi, Libya, last year. The officials say they have enough evidence to justify seizing them by military force as suspected terrorists - but not enough proof to try them in a U.S. civilian court as the Obama administration prefers.... |
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| [1] Court strikes down Arizona 20-week abortion ban |
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| [1] Protesters chant 'IRS has got to go' in Cincinnati |
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| Added on: 21-05-2013 09:34:20 |
| CINCINNATI (AP) -- Chanting "IRS has got to go," tea party activists are rallying in Cincinnati to protest extra IRS scrutiny of their groups.... |
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| WEST VALLEY CITY, Utah (AP) -- In a story May 20 about the Susan Powell investigation, The Associated Press reported erroneously the day that Josh Powell committed suicide. It happened on Feb. 15, 2012.... |
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| Is Pope Francis an exorcist? |
| Source: USA TODAY, 22 hours old |
| The question has bubbled up ever since Francis laid his hands on the head of a young man in a wheelchair Sunday. |
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| Israel may step up strikes inside Syria, military warns |
| Source: USA TODAY, 23 hours old |
| Threat follows three days of Syria attacks along the border. |
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| Notre Dame in Paris evacuated after suicide |
| Source: USA TODAY, 25 hours old |
| Police official could not confirm French media reports that man had shot himself. |
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| Updated at 12:01 a.m. ET: It's over! Kellie Pickler is the winner of the 16th season of "Dancing With the Stars." The confetti rained down on the "American Idol" alum and country-music star as she was awarded the coveted (though some might call it a little tacky) mirror-ball trophy on Tuesday night. |
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| Ex-Cincy IRS official doubts agency's explanation for Tea Party scandal |
| Source: MSNBC, 12 hours old |
| A former manager at the IRS Cincinnati office at the center of the controversy over the targeting of conservative political organizations seeking tax-exempt status tells NBC News she doesn’t think low-level employees acted on their own in flagging them for further scrutiny. |
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| Immigration bill clears key Senate panel |
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| President Obama praised the Senate Judiciary Committee's action. |
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| 9-year-old from Plaza Towers school among first tornado victims identified |
| Source: MSNBC, 13 hours old |
| A 9-year-old girl who was "always smiling" is among the first of the Oklahoma tornado victims to be identified.Third-grader Ja'Nae Hornsby was one of the students who perished when the twister demolished Plaza Towers Elementary School in Moore, Okla. |
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| Tales from the tornado: First-person accounts from survivors |
| Source: MSNBC, 13 hours old |
| A tornado that devastated Oklahoma City's suburbs has left dozens of people dead, numerous injured and missing and countless homes destroyed. As rescue workers continue to pick through the rubble, hoping to find survivors, here are some accounts from those who did make it out.Hero teacher: Student said, 'I love you, please don't die with me'Rhonda Crosswhite, a teacher in hard-hit Moore, Okla., us... |
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| Tornado survivors: A 48-hour window of opportunity |
| Source: MSNBC, 13 hours old |
| Search teams, including some with trained dogs, are scouring the rubble left behind by the monster tornado that flattened miles of homes, schools and businesses in Oklahoma City and its suburbs Monday. |
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| Coast Guardsman admits desertion in Hawaii |
| Source: Yahoo News, 16 hours old |
| Russell Matthews spent three months camping in the mountains of Oahu. |
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